When George Washington Pearson was born in 1785, in Bucks, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, Christian Pearson, was 30 and his mother, Catherine Ann Pearson, was 30. He married Alley Hale in 1805, in Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 2 daughters. He died in 1827, in Tennessee, United States, at the age of 42.
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Caused by war veteran Daniel Shays, Shays' Rebellion was to protest economic and civil rights injustices that he and other farmers were seeing after the Revolutionary War. Because of the Rebellion it opened the eyes of the governing officials that the Articles of Confederation needed a reform. The Rebellion served as a guardrail when helping reform the United States Constitution.
On June 1, 1796, Tennessee became the 16th state.
While the growth of the new nation was exponential, the United States didn’t have permanent location to house the Government. The First capital was temporary in New York City but by the second term of George Washington the Capital moved to Philadelphia for the following 10 years. Ultimately during the Presidency of John Adams, the Capital found a permanent home in the District of Columbia.
English: patronymic from the Middle English personal name Per(e) or Piers (see Pear and Pierce ) + son. The surname is also quite common in Ireland, where it has been established for many centuries. Compare Peerson .
Americanized form of one or more similar (like-sounding) Jewish (Ashkenazic) surnames.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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